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266. Dated May 10th, 1675.
' Sat., 8th.--The Lds, after reading some inconsiderable Bills, resolved in a Grand Committee to prepare a Bill for ye prevention of popery, & agreed upon this as a head yt no priest, but forreigners except Mr Huddleston, shall be permitted to attend her Ma., nor any person but Protestants or forreigners allow'd to serve any future Queen after ye death of this.
' The King sent ye Commons his answer to their address about ye troopes now in France, wch was yt those who were there before & at ye late treaty made with Holland and not agreed by yt to be recall'd were both inconsiderable, and there, upon a treaty with France, so yt he could not recall ym with safety to his honour, nor to ye peace he now enjoys with his neighbours, but yt he was content to issue out his proclamation for prohibiting any others to goe over, according to their request. Ye House debating this some while adjourned it til Monday next.
' Mond.--There is a justice' warrand lately granted by one Justice Barker to search Weld House & some other houses in yt neighbourhood for Preists.
' There goes a report about a difference between Ld Peters & his confessour (who is a Jesuite, a forreigner I suppose, there being no English ones now left). Ye Ld Peters tooke an oath of allegiance some days agoe, and since yt went to confession, but refused to confesse his haveing taken yt oath as

Newsletter from London reporting events for May 8 and 10, 1675. Transcription available from The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed by Alfred Morrison: The Bulstrode Papers (1897), Vol. 1, pages 290-291.

Transcript footnotes:

1) John Huddleston, 1608-1698, a Benedictine monk of English birth. He first served in the royalist army, then studied at the English College at Douay, and after being ordained priest was sent back to the English mission. He was in constant attendance on Charles II. after his defeat at Worcester, and being on one occasion of signal service to him, the King promised to befriend him, a promise he fulfilled at the Restoration by inviting him to take up his residence at Somerset House, where he could live under the protection of the Queen Dowager, after whose death he was appointed chaplain to Queen Catharine. In 1678 the House of Lords voted that Huddleston and some others who had been of service to the King after the battle of Worcester should live as freely as any of the King’s Protestant subjects, without being liable to the penalties of any of the laws relating to Popish recusants. When Charles II. was on his deathbed the Duke of York brought Huddleston to him, and said, ‘Sir, this good man once saved your life; he now comes to save your soul.’ Huddleston then heard the dying King’s confession, reconciled him to the Roman Church, and administered the last sacraments. All writers who mention Huddleston speak of him with respect, except Macaulay, who describes him as an honest but illiterate monk.

2) William, 4th Baron Petre of Writtle, 1626-1684, eldest son of the 3rd Baron, whom he succeeded in 1638. He was one of the cavaliers imprisoned in 1665, was impeached in 1678 of treason by the House of Commons with other Popish peers on the accusation of Titus Oates, and was imprisoned in the Tower, where he died.

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of English Manuscripts

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The over 1450 newsletters in the Pforzheimer Collection were produced by the newsletter offices of either Sir Joseph Williamson or Edward Coleman in London and sent to subscriber Sir Richard Bulstrode between 1667-1689 while he was stationed in Brussels. These handwritten newsletters represent early correspondence journalism and contain proprietary information for subscribers about proceedings in parliament, activities of the military and royal family, and court gossip that by law could not be printed in public newspapers. In reciprocation, Bulstrode and other subscribers around the English realm and Europe mailed accounts of news and politics from their host regions along with copies of local newspapers back to London.

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266. Dated May 10th, 1675.
' Sat., 8th.--The Lds, after reading some inconsiderable Bills, resolved in a Grand Committee to prepare a Bill for ye prevention of popery, & agreed upon this as a head yt no priest, but forreigners except Mr Huddleston, shall be permitted to attend her Ma., nor any person but Protestants or forreigners allow'd to serve any future Queen after ye death of this.
' The King sent ye Commons his answer to their address about ye troopes now in France, wch was yt those who were there before & at ye late treaty made with Holland and not agreed by yt to be recall'd were both inconsiderable, and there, upon a treaty with France, so yt he could not recall ym with safety to his honour, nor to ye peace he now enjoys with his neighbours, but yt he was content to issue out his proclamation for prohibiting any others to goe over, according to their request. Ye House debating this some while adjourned it til Monday next.
' Mond.--There is a justice' warrand lately granted by one Justice Barker to search Weld House & some other houses in yt neighbourhood for Preists.
' There goes a report about a difference between Ld Peters & his confessour (who is a Jesuite, a forreigner I suppose, there being no English ones now left). Ye Ld Peters tooke an oath of allegiance some days agoe, and since yt went to confession, but refused to confesse his haveing taken yt oath as